/*
**    Copyright (C) 2003-2011 Institute for Systems Biology
**                            Seattle, Washington, USA.
**
**    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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**    version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
**
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**    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
**    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
**    Lesser General Public License for more details.
**
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**    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307  USA
*/

package org.systemsbiology.util;

import java.io.Serializable;

/**
 * Explicitly specifies the generic interface requirement for an implementer of {@link Cloneable}
 * @author trobinso
 */
public interface CloneableGeneric<T extends Cloneable & Serializable> extends Cloneable {

    /**
     * Wrap clone() as an explicitly public method
     * @return T clone of this object
     * @throws CloneNotSupportedException if cloning is not supported
     */
    public T cloneMe() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
}
